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September 15, 2015

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch from Cape Canaveral this decade
Miami (AFP) Sept 15, 2015
The commercial space race got a little more crowded Tuesday when the aerospace company Blue Origin, headed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, said it will begin launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, later this decade. After losing a bid in 2013 to lease a historic launch pad - where US moon missions lifted off in the 1960s and 1970s - to rival SpaceX, Blue Origin announced it would make its home nearby at the NASA center's launch complex 36, and rename it "Exploration Park." "Today we are th ... read more

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